And before there was Mel, there was Garth. A movie about the life of Jesus has slipped in beneath the radar, opening in four cities on Friday ahead of Mel Gibson's ''Passion,'' which has been the subject of intense debate over its alleged...

After a four-year investigation, the Canadian police today charged the two founders of a Toronto theater group that staged hits like ''Showboat'' and ''Ragtime'' on Broadway with defrauding investors and creditors of $325 million. The Royal...

Although he cannot set foot in the United States without risking arrest, Garth H. Drabinsky, the Canadian impresario wanted on charges of orchestrating a criminal fraud of as much as $100 million, plans a Broadway comeback next year with a revival of...

May 6, 2002, Monday

The Broadway impresario Garth Drabinsky, a Canadian citizen wanted on criminal charges in the United States related to the collapse of his Livent production company, said today that he had settled his suit against his former accountants KPMG and KPMG...